See Also: expiration(medicine)
expiration(dictionary)
expiration(dictionary)
Expiration(finance)
EXPIRATION(law)
Expiration(money)
Expiration time(finance)
Expiration date(health)
Date, expiration(health)
Expiration date(money)

expiration (iou)



expiration noun. LME.
[Latin ex(s)piratio(n-), from ex(s)pirat- pa. ppl stem of ex(s)pirare: see EXPIRE, -ATION.]
1. a. A vapour, an exhalation. LME-M17.
b. Change into vapour, evaporation. E16-M17.
2. The action of breathing one's last; death. M16-E19.
3. = EXPIRY 1. M16.
W. S. Maugham It was at the expiration of their term [of hard labour] that their real punishment began. Los Angeles Times A customer..had noticed that the expiration date on a cottage cheese carton had passed.
4. The action or an act of breathing out. L16.
F. H. Ramadge The impeded expiration..caused..the lower lobes of the lung to be exceedingly enlarged.
5. (An) emission of air, vapour, etc. M17.
T. Hardy There came..an utter expiration of air from the whole heaven in the form of a slow breeze.
expiratory adjective M19.